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His Steadfast Love & Other Stories
Paul Brownsey
Lethe Press
October 2015
On Sale: September 18, 2015
194 pages
ISBN: 1590214382
EAN: 9781590214381
Kindle: B014RVEJH2
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LGBTQ
In the world of Paul Brownsey, God is a camp old queen
trying to split up a gay couple. Judy Garland did not die in
1969 and instead ended up wowing her fellow residents in a
Scottish care home on karaoke night. A fan of musical
theatre steals an Irving Berlin lyric as a Valentine's poem
and spends decades contriving to hide the theft from his
lover. After a one-night stand, two men maintain a distant
awareness of each other's lives for a quarter of a century
and then face the question: are we in love? A couple find
that over the twelve days of Christmas they experience
everything that could possibly happen in a love affair, at
least as recorded in popular songs from Some Enchanted
Evening to For the Good Times. A gay couple discover Queen
Elizabeth II injured on a hillside near her Balmoral castle
and are torn between star-struck fawning and lecturing her
on gay rights. Often playful, Scottish author Paul
Brownsey's stories in His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
cast an imaginative eye on gay life-but, make no mistake,
they deal with the life most gay men will recognise, in
which meeting lovers and sustaining relationships go
alongside the uneasy terrain of acceptance, both internal
and external. And as a former philosophy professor at
Glasgow University, Brownsey knows how our everyday lives
embody the big questions, but he shows this with a light
touch and dark humour.
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